A Government Run By Mrs. Kravitz
By Frank Salvato
July 24, 2009
If you are a Baby Boomer you, no doubt, remember the television series Bewitched, starring Elizabeth Montgomery. Ms. Montgomery played Samantha Stevens, a witch who was married to a mortal and who lived in a quintessential American suburb. One of the regular characters -- and one of the funnier characters -- was a neighbor of the Stevens', Gladys Kravitz, played by Alice Pearce and then Sandra Gould. An incredibly nosey neighbor, Gladys Kravitz was always just moments away from being able to prove to her husband, Abner, that "something very strange is going on over at the Stevens' house." Gladys Kravitz was the model busybody and, if she were alive and real today, she would, no doubt, be a member of the 111th Congress.
Gladys Kravitz knew everything and nothing at all, all at the same time. Her advice was most always wrong and her opinion was most always uninformed but this didn't mean that she ever gave thought to not offering both to anyone and everyone with whom she came in contact. Mrs. Kravitz, as Samantha always called her, believed that she was always right, even without knowing all the facts or understanding all the issues. That she existed was enough reason for her input to be solicited and Lord help you if you didn't act on her advice in an expeditious manner! Just ask Abner!
As I remember the character I can't help but think that we have a factionalist gaggle of Mrs. Kravitzs currently running our government. Then, in deference to Ms. Pearce, Ms. Gould and the writers of Bewitched, I reconsidered...the gaggle now in control of the US government is much worse. The 111th Congress can only be described as being run by a minority of know-it-alls who insist they know what's best for you, for me, for our entire country without any practical experience to support their arrogance and without any understanding of reality to sustain their bloated sense of elitist superiority.
How else can you explain moments like these?
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) -- a white woman -- tries to lecture National Black Chamber of Commerce president Harry Alford -- a Black man -- on the position of Black activists regarding Climate Change legislation.
President Obama, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner coerce many of the nation's largest and most influential banking and financial institutions into ceding control and financially ingratiating their privately held companies to the government under the notion that government knows best how to fix the economy.
The same trio of grifters bullied GM into ceding corporate board power to the Auto Workers Union and pressured Chrysler into becoming a foreign-owned company, both in a fashion that would make Don Vito Corleone envious.
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) strong-armed a stimulus bill through Congress with not a single elected official actually reading the bill, doing so while preaching to the people, "We know best how to stem the crisis."
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